Intropro Blog Oozie Flow Simple Configurator

Properly designed Oozie flow is not hardcoded with parameters but operates on variables which are exposed for external configuration. The parameters are passed as oozie variables in sumbitted job properties file with default values specified in the config-default.xml. This setup is perfectly fine for developers who meddle from shell with their low level action development and debugging tasks usually on some dedicated or personal Hadoop environment.